Sean Combs- The Reckoning - Season 1 Episode 01- Pain vs Love
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00:00:00Things are happening, and it's like, I want to fight for my life.
00:00:12I want to fight for, you know, justice, not guilty.
00:00:15I want to have a life to be able to live.
00:00:18You know, it's really going to be hard for me to take more hits
00:00:21than I take it, God forbid, get in front of a jury and have a chance.
00:00:27And so I'm having this emergency call because something has to give.
00:00:31We need the core theme to be, you didn't do anything wrong.
00:00:35You know, you didn't do anything wrong on any front.
00:00:37And you've come to New York to face things head on.
00:00:41If anyone's ever paying any attention to what you've actually been doing,
00:00:45you've handled this with complete honor.
00:00:49I don't think it's working. I've listened.
00:00:53I've been a superb client, as you said.
00:00:56I jumped on a plane. I'm coming to New York.
00:00:58But I'm just, like, I'm just running around waiting for a shooter drop.
00:01:05We're losing sight of the big picture, man.
00:01:08It's the middle of September, and there's still no indictment.
00:01:11That's...
00:01:12No, bro, then you have to have a spokesman.
00:01:15You have to have some sort of comms to constantly be pushing that mark.
00:01:19Because you may just be a person that just does...
00:01:21You just may watch CNN. You know what I'm saying?
00:01:24And there's, like, there's 9 billion people in the world.
00:01:26And 7 billion of them is on Instagram and TikTok.
00:01:31And so you at the wrong place looking to see what the people with the possible jurors are thinking.
00:01:37We have to find somebody that'll work with us, whether they're from this country or from another country.
00:01:43It could be somebody that has dealt in the dirtiest of dirtiest, dirty business of media and propaganda.
00:01:52I've seen the media portray me like I'm a gangster, or at times I'm a cold individual, or I'm just a shrewd businessman, which is just not the case.
00:02:11I'm a dreamer. I love closing my eyes and dreaming. I don't really deal with reality.
00:02:16You know, I think that you're a great guy, a great role model.
00:02:18Diddy P. Papa. Papa Diddy Pop.
00:02:21I'm sorry, I don't know what you're calling yourself these days.
00:02:23The American dream come true. Thank you, America.
00:02:27It's like we have a movie and you're speaking this language and, you know what I'm saying, we need subtitles.
00:02:32And we're not providing the audience for subtitles.
00:02:34And I invited you to this movie and you and this thing, you don't know what's going on.
00:02:38You just see, you just see the images, you know, quickly.
00:02:43Now, it has a whole life of its own.
00:02:44The Department of Homeland Security conducting a raid at a house connected to Sean.
00:02:55Breaking news, another woman is accusing Sean Diddy Holmes of sexual assault.
00:02:58Trafficking, forced labor, kidnapping.
00:03:00The fourth lawsuit in the last five weeks.
00:03:02The fifth lawsuit.
00:03:03The seventh lawsuit.
00:03:04There are now more than a dozen civil cases.
00:03:05Conduct that does indeed span two decades.
00:03:07I'm taking eight nuclear bombs, you know what I'm saying, straight to the head.
00:03:12And I'm tired of, I'm tired of going back and forth with y'all with the lawyers.
00:03:16That's, that's, that's just not true.
00:03:17Okay, so, so, so, so, so, so, so.
00:03:19Let me, let me.
00:03:20No, no, no, no, no, no.
00:03:21Let me, let me tell you something.
00:03:22Let me, let me, let me say this.
00:03:23I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not a referee.
00:03:26So I'm going to get off the phone right now.
00:03:28Listen to me.
00:03:29I'm going to get off the phone right now.
00:03:31And I am going to let you professionals look at the situation and come back to me with a solution.
00:03:37No matter what, no matter what nobody said.
00:03:40Let's, let's just, here and there, y'all are not working together the right way.
00:03:43We're losing.
00:04:10Let's just get little cutaways of them.
00:04:12Like looking from the, you know what I'm saying?
00:04:14That's what I say.
00:04:15Yeah, just get little cutaways of them, like, looking from the, you know what I'm saying?
00:04:31That's what I'm saying.
00:04:45All of us got to go to the maker, and we will be held accountable for the things we did and we didn't do.
00:04:57Sean Combs is an asshole.
00:05:01He is the motherfucker you're not going to like, and you're not going to get the fuck along with if he doesn't get his way.
00:05:07If I ever miss this guy, nobody's down with me, motherfucker.
00:05:11He quickly became my hero.
00:05:12If y'all had a fucking chance to meet this guy, you would be like, this nigga's energy is everything.
00:05:25I got to get up and go.
00:05:26I got to get up and do it.
00:05:29What's next?
00:05:30What's next?
00:05:31I got to get it.
00:05:32I'm not going to stay fucking down.
00:05:34He was presenting this freedom that black people hadn't had.
00:05:40Like, we hadn't experienced a black man being able to say, I don't want that.
00:05:44I don't want no problems.
00:05:45What you calling?
00:05:46Hey, yo, dog, what are you talking about?
00:05:47You telling me, like, I'm on some bullshit?
00:05:49I ain't on no bullshit with you.
00:05:51So when I first met him, he quickly became the guy I wanted to be like.
00:05:55When you're a leader in that way, it's admirable until you get to the point where you want to control everyone around you.
00:06:06He got to that point.
00:06:08What y'all want to do?
00:06:11Want to be ballers, shot callers, brawlers.
00:06:14It's like Scarface, the movie.
00:06:16I want the world and everything that's in it.
00:06:19But you got everything.
00:06:22Hey, yo, New York, we fucking did it.
00:06:25Harlem, we did it.
00:06:26Montana, we did it.
00:06:27It was a mantra that Sean had.
00:06:31Nobody's going to be bigger than me.
00:06:33Sean is the 1% of the 1% of the 1%.
00:06:35We'll never see a Sean in my lifetime again, ever.
00:06:41It was like the more money he got, the more power he got, the more power he got, the more money he got.
00:06:48And he always felt like money can get him out of everything.
00:06:52I do feel it's important that we let the public know from the juror's standpoint just kind of how we reach the verdict.
00:07:01It's not everything that the media has put it out to be.
00:07:08You want to put stuff in my fanny pack, King?
00:07:11He's creating a narrative always.
00:07:17He is the best storyteller in hip-hop.
00:07:20He thinks he's black Superman.
00:07:23I can do what I want.
00:07:25You can't go on for long in life doing the things that he was doing before something eventually happens.
00:07:34You can't continue to keep hurting people and nothing ever happens.
00:07:38It's just a matter of time.
00:07:49Is it good to be back in New York?
00:07:52It's always good to be back in New York.
00:07:55Once upon a time, not long ago,
00:07:57when people wore pajamas and lived life slow,
00:08:00where laws were stern and justice stood,
00:08:02and people were behaving like they ought to good.
00:08:04How you change the kids on here?
00:08:06I was there from the very beginning
00:08:24with the invention of Sean Combs.
00:08:29I co-founded Bad Boy with Sean.
00:08:32I was dazzled by his ideas and his unique talent.
00:08:40But he was a very different Sean Combs back then.
00:08:44Yo, fuck, man.
00:08:46I'm gonna take care of this.
00:08:48Sean was 19 when he dropped out of Howard University.
00:08:52He wanted to be in the flashy, swaggy music industry.
00:08:56He started off dancing, wanting to be in videos.
00:09:09Wanting to be a pop culture mover and shaker
00:09:13at a time where things were changing.
00:09:16He wanted to be a pop culture.
00:09:17He wanted to be a pop culture.
00:09:19Hip-hop was evolving.
00:09:21Like it or not, rap is here to stay.
00:09:24It has become part of mainstream commerce.
00:09:28It was just explosive.
00:09:31Run DMC.
00:09:32Chaos One.
00:09:33Public Enemy.
00:09:35Rock him.
00:09:35I'm sorry.
00:09:36The late 80s, it was fantastic.
00:09:42There were a lot of independent labels that gave birth to hip-hop in the way that we know it today.
00:09:49What is this new music?
00:09:56Like Uptown Records.
00:09:58Grab a hold of yourself and check this tempo. Remember these rhymes?
00:10:02Heavy D said so the overweight weight...
00:10:04Heavy D was the biggest rapper signed to Uptown.
00:10:08Excuse me.
00:10:09We got Heavy D in the house with us today. Thanks for coming down.
00:10:12You can be with the hardest cats in the hood. You can rock Heavy D.
00:10:14You're with your grandmother in the car. You ain't got to reach for the radio and turn it off.
00:10:18We called him the official mayor of Money Earned Mount Vernon.
00:10:23Money Earned Mount Vernon, Vernon.
00:10:28Mount Vernon is in Westchester County.
00:10:30Heavy D, the first city outside of the Bronx.
00:10:35Heavy D put that area on the map.
00:10:39Heavy D and the boy!
00:10:41And his influence reached all the young people in the neighborhood,
00:10:46including the young Sean Combs, who was at Mount St. Michael High School,
00:10:52a Catholic, private school.
00:10:56He would knock on Heavy D's door every day
00:10:59to see if Heavy would take him to meet Andre Harrell.
00:11:06Andre was the champagne of rap.
00:11:10And he took the streets to Wall Street.
00:11:14The only entrance into hip-hop at that point was Andre Harrell and Russell Simmons.
00:11:21Into the corporate hip-hop world.
00:11:23Into the money.
00:11:25Sean had impressed Andre enough to give him an internship.
00:11:29And that was the beginning.
00:11:30I worked with Sean as an intern at Uptown.
00:11:37I'm a picture, I'm a blade out for you.
00:11:39When you thought of Uptown records, you thought of Heavy D,
00:11:42and I'll be sure.
00:11:44I can tell you how I feel about your mind today.
00:11:50I was the first number one artist on the Billboard charts on Uptown,
00:11:55and the first platinum artist on the Uptown label.
00:12:00He was a GQ nigga, you know.
00:12:01He was a real Penny Loafers type.
00:12:05He was one of them fly, light-skinned niggas.
00:12:07And girls loved him.
00:12:09He's ours, so nice!
00:12:12Al was dating Kim.
00:12:16Kim Porter.
00:12:18Kim is at the receptionist's desk at Uptown.
00:12:21You get out the elevator, first person you see is Kim.
00:12:25And it was a beautiful sight.
00:12:28Everybody said that, you know what I mean?
00:12:30But when Sean saw Kim, it was different.
00:12:36And now Sean's always at the receptionist's desk,
00:12:40begging Kim for something.
00:12:42A date, a kiss.
00:12:44He put it all on the table for Kim.
00:12:48It was weird.
00:12:49It was weird in the air because everyone knew this was Al's girl.
00:12:53Al is hot as fish grease right now.
00:12:56Hi, this is Al B. Shore.
00:12:58Here's my exclusive number.
00:13:00$2 for the first minute, 45 cents for each additional minute.
00:13:04And Sean was not really, like, the catch.
00:13:09He didn't drink alcohol.
00:13:11He forbade marijuana.
00:13:12He did not like drugs.
00:13:14He had the Gumby, and he looked like a scholastic dweeb.
00:13:19But Sean was still determined.
00:13:23Yo, I bet you I could get Kim.
00:13:24And he was like, nah, no way.
00:13:27Your weight ain't even up enough yet.
00:13:29But when Sean wants something, he's going to get it.
00:13:33It might be a couple of years from now.
00:13:35But sooner or later, he's going to get it.
00:13:38Andre Harrell, Heavy D, Al B. Shore, they had all the money and all the power.
00:13:45And I was like, I don't know what they did, but that's what I want to do.
00:13:51I got to Uptown a few months after Sean did, and I saw him being built into cool.
00:13:59We had to go through the Uptown flavor camp.
00:14:02I learned a lot quickly.
00:14:08Being in front of Willie Burgers on the hump 45th and 84, being at the rooftop.
00:14:12Let's get it going, rooftop!
00:14:13The fashion, the walk, the talk, the attitude, the drive, the determination.
00:14:20I was ready to do whatever it took to win.
00:14:23The young Sean Combs during that time, he was so tenacious.
00:14:27You would ask him to turn Wednesday into Tuesday.
00:14:31He would set about doing it.
00:14:34First task we had given him was just go get a tape ten blocks away.
00:14:39He came back in two minutes to something crazy.
00:14:41I remember I was on the phone, and I looked up when he came back.
00:14:43I was like, how'd you get there so fast?
00:14:46And he said, I ran there and back.
00:14:49Right there and there, I said, oh, okay.
00:14:51Yeah, I should have known then that that was never going to stop, to run there and run back.
00:14:59He ingratiated himself to Andre and made himself very valuable.
00:15:04Something that you don't want to do without.
00:15:07Like, who's going to get my clothes?
00:15:08Who's going to armor on my tire?
00:15:10This is so convenient.
00:15:12Then they lived together.
00:15:13I bought the first million dollar house.
00:15:17Funny, that weekend, just before I moved in, he had a mysterious fight with his mother.
00:15:22And he said, I can't go home.
00:15:24I got to stay here with you.
00:15:25Pup moved in before I did.
00:15:30Andre is taking him under like a son.
00:15:33Andre is the very first patriarch he connected with.
00:15:36Sean grew up with the illusion of what masculinity looks like.
00:15:44My first encounter with Sean, I remember it like yesterday.
00:15:49My family, we rented the first floor of Sean's house.
00:15:53I was my mom and dad's only child.
00:15:56So now Sean has somebody to brother up with.
00:16:00We experienced a lot of firsts together.
00:16:03I taught him how to ride a bike.
00:16:07It was the best thing in my life to let go of the bike and him start riding.
00:16:12We fit so well.
00:16:14Sean was another misfit, just like me.
00:16:17But the difference in my household, my dad taught me right from wrong.
00:16:23No, Sean, Sean didn't have that.
00:16:26Ladies and gentlemen, I would like to introduce my mother, Janice Combs.
00:16:29What were the primary jobs that you did to support your family?
00:16:39I did so many jobs at one time.
00:16:42I worked at the United Civil Policy.
00:16:45I worked at the Board of Ed in Westchester County.
00:16:49I drove the school bus.
00:16:51I worked in a baby's boutique shop.
00:16:54And he never knew this.
00:16:55I worked in an after-hours spot, too.
00:16:57I had to come clean.
00:17:01I needed to come clean.
00:17:04Okay, now.
00:17:08Okay.
00:17:09I made more money because the men thought I was very glamorous and I used to pour liquor.
00:17:13And they'd give me big tips.
00:17:16In Sean's house, there was Janice and there was Sean.
00:17:20My father's name is Melvin Combs.
00:17:24I didn't get a chance to get to know him.
00:17:25I was too young.
00:17:27My father, his brain's blown out like on Central Park West.
00:17:31I did the research.
00:17:33They said my mother had brought me to the funeral of Full-length Chinchilla.
00:17:38It was like a sigh of relief, you know what I'm saying?
00:17:43Because I finally knew that what I was feeling was true, you know what I'm saying?
00:17:46That I was a son of a hustler or a gangster.
00:17:50Melvin's presence was there.
00:17:52His money was there.
00:17:54And I understood that Melvin made a lot of things possible.
00:17:58But Sean's mom was his everything.
00:18:03If you look at some of the early pictures that Janice has of Sean, she was always making him into something.
00:18:14The hats, fur coats.
00:18:18I think she tried to overcompensate for the father being gone by making him into this dandy.
00:18:28Everything associated with Sean was Harlem.
00:18:34Whoever was flying Harlem, that's what he was as a child.
00:18:39Janice, she'd always be in Harlem.
00:18:41And there were times where she'd bring us.
00:18:46Here we are in this brand new Cadillac, because that's all Janice drove.
00:18:51She's making stops.
00:18:53Here and there.
00:18:54You know, we knew the rule, the drill.
00:18:55Just sit there, I'll be right back.
00:18:57She ain't turn the car off.
00:18:59Nobody took the car.
00:19:01Mm-hmm.
00:19:02Nah.
00:19:03So you knew there was a different vibe going on with this family.
00:19:07In his household, the groove was a little different.
00:19:13A lot of Donna Summer playing.
00:19:16And then we had these movies we'd watch.
00:19:18This got to be number one.
00:19:20This genre of films called Black Exploitation.
00:19:23Superdew.
00:19:24You had Superfly.
00:19:25Superfly.
00:19:27You had the Mac.
00:19:28When you got nothing, you want everything.
00:19:31You gotta get to be the Mac.
00:19:34Their parts were hustler parts.
00:19:37In Sean's household, you start to see all the stuff that you saw in the movies.
00:19:47Janice knew how to throw a party.
00:19:50And the party's packed.
00:19:52You got ladies that look like they're straight out of a Jet magazine.
00:19:56Some brothers up there.
00:19:58You know, if you want to call them pimps, you can.
00:20:00If you want to call them hustlers, you can.
00:20:02You got a member of the New York Knicks or two.
00:20:09There was a stage in her living room.
00:20:11Literally a stage.
00:20:13And that's where we used to have to go and dance.
00:20:17And everybody's calling you baby.
00:20:19And everybody's saying, do that dance.
00:20:27And all of this stuff he's taken in.
00:20:30So from the movie screen to the home screen, these are the makings of Sean Combs.
00:20:43Now, mind you, as a child, Sean was goofy.
00:20:46Kids would pick on him a lot around the block.
00:20:50And he didn't know how to defend himself.
00:20:53Sean was a prince.
00:20:55And Janice, she didn't want no princess.
00:20:58She held back nothing.
00:21:01You've said I would be 12 years old.
00:21:04And sometimes I'd be out until 3, 4 in the morning.
00:21:07James, James, we don't have to get into that right now.
00:21:11Ma'am?
00:21:12Got a lot of beatings, too.
00:21:15His beatings made me scared.
00:21:19Right?
00:21:19I got beatings now.
00:21:22But when he got his beatings, it wasn't no.
00:21:28It wasn't a joking thing.
00:21:30Nah.
00:21:34Damn, I hate thinking about that, man.
00:21:35My mother was, I guess, raising me for the real world.
00:21:42She was always told me if somebody hit me, make sure I hit them back harder.
00:21:45Make sure they never hit me again.
00:21:47Make sure I fucked them up.
00:21:48You know how you hear your mom's voice in your ear.
00:21:54Boy?
00:21:55You better.
00:21:57Boy?
00:22:00Sean started fighting.
00:22:01He started stepping up.
00:22:03But Sean don't fight like this.
00:22:06Sean's going to bite you.
00:22:08He's going to eat your ear off.
00:22:09He's going to cut your neck open with his mouth.
00:22:13He's not losing.
00:22:14I know people are shaped by pain as well as by love.
00:22:24And if it was more pain than love, watch out.
00:22:30There's going to be pain that you're going to give others
00:22:33because you're responding to that pain that you just can't seem to cut out of you.
00:22:44I didn't know much about him.
00:22:53I know that he had a big ego.
00:22:58I met him around 89, 90.
00:23:01My job was to promote music videos.
00:23:05And Puffy, he was always doing the party promotion,
00:23:07so he's always, like, handing out the flyers.
00:23:10At the time, I was working with Andre Harrell.
00:23:13But he wasn't paying me enough, so I had to promote parties on the side,
00:23:16which was all good.
00:23:17You know what I'm saying?
00:23:18Daddy's house.
00:23:19He was savvy enough to promote parties.
00:23:22They were the most successful parties at that time.
00:23:25But they were all about promoting himself.
00:23:28One of the brothers that put the party together, my man, Puff Daddy.
00:23:32Really, it was no problem, because all my black brothers and sisters came together
00:23:35like my man, tell you, Fred.
00:23:36All the beautiful women out here, we came together just to have a good time.
00:23:39I went to a party for a good friend.
00:23:46It was getting very late.
00:23:48Puffy is like, oh, you know, I'm having an after party
00:23:51at Andre Harrell's house.
00:23:56Andre Harrell wasn't there.
00:23:58He was out of town.
00:23:58People were tracking mud through the house.
00:24:06And I remember at the end of the night, I was helping clean up the mud.
00:24:11Puffy is like very polite, you know, and thanking me for helping him.
00:24:15And he asked me, oh, wow, I just got this call.
00:24:19You know, someone, this girl backed out of this music video.
00:24:22You know, can you do it?
00:24:23And I was like, I don't do music videos.
00:24:26But this party was in New Jersey, and I needed a ride back to Manhattan.
00:24:34So I went along.
00:24:36And I never figured I had the same clothes on that I had from the night before.
00:24:45The music video was called Straight from the Soul by Finesse and Sinquist.
00:24:51The whole premise was for me to jump out the car and go with these girls
00:24:57and get away from the pimp guy.
00:24:59Nice clothes in a car doesn't make you a star.
00:25:02You can't talk positive and do the opposite.
00:25:04Cause then you're labeled as a fool.
00:25:06A hypocrite.
00:25:07You can't be righteous, throw a party to flip.
00:25:09Sniff and snort, drink and drive and hide your sister's strip.
00:25:11You know what that looks like to your people?
00:25:13A vacant script.
00:25:14Dying sisters don't want to look you in your face.
00:25:16Wanting to be a pimp, brother?
00:25:18Your heart ain't that cold.
00:25:19And this is straight from the soul.
00:25:21Soul.
00:25:21Was there ever a time that Sean Combs sexually assaulted you?
00:25:35Yes.
00:25:38Someone called me up and told me that, um, he said, you know, he has, you know, video.
00:25:45And I was like, what?
00:25:47And that's when he, um, described it.
00:25:51And explained it.
00:26:11I, I just want to say this.
00:26:14This thing was incredibly devastating to my family.
00:26:19My mother.
00:26:20She's a social worker.
00:26:22We don't have money.
00:26:25The thing that we had was our pride.
00:26:36We carried ourselves well.
00:26:39We were pretty.
00:26:40We were intelligent.
00:26:41This is the basis of what I had.
00:26:46Self-respect.
00:26:49My mother wrote a letter to Combs' parents.
00:26:55I just found this recently.
00:26:58Dear Mr. and Mrs. Combs, I'm writing you to inform you of something that your son did to my daughter.
00:27:17One weekend while visiting my daughter, I awoke to her screaming in the middle of the night.
00:27:25She told me that she was dreaming about Puffy.
00:27:29I asked her why she was screaming and who is this Puffy person that he would cause her to have nightmares.
00:27:39I was shocked and mortified to hear her story.
00:27:43She told me that several people have come to her to inform her that your son has made an obscene videotape of her.
00:27:55Without her knowledge, he videotaped him doing something sexual to her.
00:28:01Apparently, your son shows these tapes at parties on large screen televisions.
00:28:13I realize that this may be hard for you to believe, but if I hadn't heard this story from my daughter's own mouth and looked into her eyes,
00:28:22I would have scarcely believed that any individual would compromise another person's dignity in this manner.
00:28:31I approached a lot of people for help.
00:28:46I got things like, what do you want me to do about it?
00:28:51To, if I help you, I can't get into his parties.
00:28:55I got Puff Daddy from Puff Daddy's house.
00:29:00What's up?
00:29:01What's up?
00:29:01And we revolutionized the hip-hop club scene this year.
00:29:08Why would you want to do that?
00:29:11Drug and rape the girl, tape it, and then put it up on the screen?
00:29:19Here's my theory.
00:29:20Alpo Martinez, drug lord, famous Harlem street, tough guy, hung out at the rooftop.
00:29:31Once again, I'd like to welcome you and yours in the rooftop.
00:29:34Alpo would have a lot of girls, and he would tape girls that he was having sex with.
00:29:40And then on a Saturday night, he might bring his camera and put it on the wall.
00:29:44And everyone knows that's so-and-so's girl.
00:29:53What Sean saw was, I want to be looked upon in that way, as someone that has that type of stature.
00:30:00All his life, he's been trying to honor a man.
00:30:06He believed it was a famous Harlem gangster, and that gave his father a mythic presence.
00:30:16People like Alpo, he looked at those guys with a certain amount of jealousy or envy,
00:30:22a certain amount of respect, and there's a certain amount of desire.
00:30:26There, that thing was in him from there.
00:30:36Did you ever confront Sean about him?
00:30:39I did.
00:30:41I avoided him for a very long time.
00:30:45I ran into him one day.
00:30:47He came to me, he got on his knees, and swore he did not do this thing to me.
00:30:58And denied it.
00:31:05And that was the very last time I talked to him.
00:31:08We fucking did it!
00:31:10Let's go!
00:31:11The key to the city!
00:31:12Yeah, yeah, yeah!
00:31:13When I think back, in terms of his rise,
00:31:16it is the most helpless feeling.
00:31:24I was always nauseous when I saw his image.
00:31:29The one image in Times Square where he's holding his fist up,
00:31:34when I saw it, I vomited right there on the street.
00:31:43You are really raising your hand to victory,
00:31:45and I'm living in trauma and defeat.
00:31:47It's a new legal travel for Sean Diddy.
00:32:06Another new lawsuit.
00:32:08...of sexual assault, sex trafficking, and drugging underage girls.
00:32:12Federal prosecutors in New York have interviewed numerous women who allege Rome...
00:32:16...this is at least the 10th civil lawsuit filed against Sean Diddy Combs' alleged sex trafficking.
00:32:22Let's take the blood, man.
00:32:23What the fuck else are around?
00:32:26I don't know.
00:32:28There's a bunch of silly bullshit.
00:32:29...just silly bullshit, noise.
00:32:33No sense, noise.
00:32:36But it's like the legal system is doing it now.
00:32:38Because, like, legally...
00:32:39We gotta...
00:32:40...it's like, I gotta spend money to go and get rid of this bullshit.
00:32:47Oh, yeah.
00:32:48Ain't got nothing left.
00:32:51Ain't got nothing left going on.
00:32:54They ain't breaking me, no.
00:32:55How are you, boss?
00:32:57If you don't mind, want a picture, please?
00:33:00I'm not good with the camera, so...
00:33:02I'm gonna try.
00:33:06Can we see the booth photo?
00:33:07Yeah.
00:33:08How are you?
00:33:08Nice to meet you, boy.
00:33:09All right.
00:33:09Y'all can hop in.
00:33:10Yeah, as a group.
00:33:11As a group.
00:33:12There.
00:33:13Sean was destined to be famous.
00:33:18Okay.
00:33:19One more, one more.
00:33:20Yeah.
00:33:20One more, one more.
00:33:20I was confused about that.
00:33:22I didn't see him for me coming.
00:33:24I swear I didn't see that coming.
00:33:25I'm 19, and I always like seeing people entertained.
00:33:34And I thought, you know, over the holidays, I just wanted to throw a celebrity basketball game in Harlem.
00:33:42I was at the game.
00:33:43I was on the floor.
00:33:44All of us was there.
00:33:45Every rapper in New York, right?
00:33:48Your MTV Raps came.
00:33:49I'm at City College in the heart of New York City for the Puff Daddy Heavy D first all-time celebrity all-star classic.
00:33:56That was one of the biggest basketball games.
00:33:59If that would have turned out correctly, it would have went down in history.
00:34:02There were lines and lines around the campus to get in.
00:34:12There's no more room, but everyone still wants to come.
00:34:15There was a thing in hip-hop called bum-rushing the door.
00:34:38People don't have a ticket.
00:34:40When they hear something sold out, they say, fuck it.
00:34:42We got to still get in.
00:34:42We're going to bum-rush the door.
00:34:45When they got to the bottom of the stairs, the doors didn't go out that way.
00:34:50They only came in.
00:34:51So people were stuck.
00:34:54They were just crushing people down at the bottom of the stairs.
00:34:57We were on the court, warming up the play, and then Dougie first grabbed the mic and said, there's people that are dead.
00:35:13Whether you be a regular star, or whether you be the most regular person in here, you need to be.
00:35:21And it's over.
00:35:27Sean over-promoted, over-hyped, and that led to a crowd.
00:35:37It was just like, oh shit, how did this happen so quick?
00:35:41How would people want to explain it?
00:35:47We need a lot of help here.
00:35:48There's a lot of people hurt and aren't breathing.
00:35:51Not breathing?
00:35:52Yes.
00:35:52I mean, we have a fucking emergency over here.
00:35:57We got a lot of people here dead in the gymnasium, please.
00:36:06They're dead?
00:36:10The death toll from last week's stampede at a New York charity basketball game has risen to nine.
00:36:16Never's getting trampled.
00:36:17Awful money.
00:36:18$12, man.
00:36:19What do you mean $12?
00:36:20Cost $12 for a ticket.
00:36:22One of the unanswered questions remains who's to blame for the stampede that killed nine people.
00:36:29Throughout the newspaper headlines, throughout the confusion, the finger-pointing, who was responsible, Sean Young, in real time, carried the weight of all of that.
00:36:46My dream for this evening was to bring a positive program to my people, to people of my age, and to people in my community.
00:36:56Whatever must be done, must be done to ensure that this never, ever, ever happens again.
00:37:02It was the biggest news ever.
00:37:05That's how he got super famous, was that game and those deaths.
00:37:12That's the beginning of Puff Daddy.
00:37:14That's really how I started to become famous, was through a tragedy.
00:37:23He was holed up in a hotel on the east side, him and his mother.
00:37:28He didn't know what was going to happen.
00:37:32And I saw Janice question Sean.
00:37:35He's going into this music business thing.
00:37:39He just left school, and now this extreme tragedy has occurred.
00:37:44She's like, did he make the right decision?
00:37:48And I saw him put his hands on her,
00:37:51call her a bitch, and slapped her.
00:37:57He's not looking back.
00:38:05Sean Puff Daddy Combs and sponsors claim no responsibility in the tragic chain of events
00:38:13that claim nine lives and injured...
00:38:15The brass that afforded Uptown its distribution money wanted Sean out.
00:38:22I saw Andre fight and fight to keep Sean in, and he did.
00:38:29Andre Orell, Puff Daddy, he's passing on to, I guess, his son.
00:38:33Protégé.
00:38:33Protégé.
00:38:34Yes, yes.
00:38:35Puffy.
00:38:35Yes.
00:38:36Tell me a little bit about this man, and why you like working with him.
00:38:39Because, you know, he's not intimidated by youth, you know what I'm saying?
00:38:42He knows the importance of leaving the legacy behind.
00:38:45Because we need more adults out there that's going to teach the young, such as myself.
00:38:50I took Andre Orell out to lunch, and I said, can I get a chance to maybe do A&R?
00:38:56The A&R is Artists and Repertoire.
00:38:58That's the guy that works at the record company that puts the records together and works with the artist.
00:39:02I said, give me a chance.
00:39:05You know, you're making music for young people.
00:39:07I'm young, and, you know, who better to make the music than me?
00:39:10We had a group back in the day.
00:39:15They drove up to New York unannounced to meet Andre Harrell.
00:39:19When we make love, Jodeci.
00:39:23It's like a dream.
00:39:27They sing for Andre.
00:39:28Andre loves it.
00:39:29Immediately, that becomes Puff's first responsibility.
00:39:32Nigga, go make Jodeci.
00:39:34What's in the future of Jodeci?
00:39:36Hopefully to make hits, hits, hits.
00:39:39Andre put his trust with Sean as opposed to the artist.
00:39:44He told us, I don't care who the artist is, you're more important than them.
00:39:51The artists don't work without you.
00:39:54What would be the ideal musical setting for y'all?
00:39:56I guess we're in front of, like, millions of people, you know.
00:39:58You have to be able to control everything.
00:40:02I basically styled and come up with the images and designed most of the clothing for all of the artists.
00:40:07It was him that put Jodeci in the pants, baggy, sagging at the bottom, the boots not lacing it up.
00:40:15He is able to sponge from the community and the culture and package it.
00:40:23And in the studio, he did the same thing.
00:40:27Sean wasn't a producer where he can tell you, you need a C here, a C note, or this is an F.
00:40:33But he did have a good ear for what could be a hit.
00:40:38Let me give you an example.
00:40:39Let's get it going.
00:40:40Rooftop!
00:40:41At the rooftop in Harlem, the DJ Brucie B would mix acapellas from R&B songs with hard hip-hop beats.
00:40:50Run for me!
00:40:53And it drove the kids crazy at the clubs.
00:40:56Run for me!
00:40:57That's what Sean did with Jodeci on those remixes.
00:41:00It was very minimal.
00:41:03It was very hard beat and snare, no melody.
00:41:06Come and talk to me, baby.
00:41:07Come and talk to me, baby.
00:41:10I really wanna meet you.
00:41:13Jodeci's record started climbing the charts.
00:41:16Here we go!
00:41:17Go Jodeci, go!
00:41:18Sean turned that into the blueprint for his special brand of A&R.
00:41:23And then the next artist to benefit from that was Mary J. Blige.
00:41:28Hey, Mary's pop.
00:41:29Pick up the phone, nigga.
00:41:30Hey, Mary.
00:41:31It's pop.
00:41:32Mary's What's the 411 was out the box.
00:41:36Then tomorrow you gotta, um, you gotta do this video shoot.
00:41:39The hat pulled out, the mysteriousness.
00:41:41It had a little bit of a darkness and moodiness to it as well.
00:41:44All of that was groundbreaking.
00:41:50He launched a female artist in a male-dominated hip-hop era.
00:41:58Who became an instant success.
00:42:01And that created hip-hop soul.
00:42:05Mary became the owner of that sound.
00:42:07Sean was making the hits happen and the visuals happen.
00:42:17In 1992, Sean is promoted to VP of A&R and Artists and Development.
00:42:23So my name's Puff Daddy, vice president of A&R and Artists and Development for Uptown Records.
00:42:29Which brought you the hits of Jodeci, Mary J. Blige, Heavy D and the Boys, Fallen Sea.
00:42:34And you know, on and on and on.
00:42:36Puff Daddy had Jodeci and Mary J. Blige.
00:42:39But Puff Daddy's a big, huge EPMD fan.
00:42:41My background sing, my background sing for the crossover.
00:42:45He was at my crossover video shoot.
00:42:48And he asked me to do the Mary J. Blige intro for the 401 album.
00:42:53Your name, Blige Chops, this is Eric Sturman, MC Graham Royal.
00:42:58I did that for him and then all of a sudden we became friends.
00:43:02I thought it was a general friendship.
00:43:05Until I see that this game is being played.
00:43:10You got an agenda.
00:43:13Misa.
00:43:15He was trying to court her after we broke up.
00:43:19Sean wants her because Eric was that dude.
00:43:23It was about, I got her, I won her over from him.
00:43:30He had to have the girl.
00:43:33And Sean has a way about, when he gets you, he got you.
00:43:38He got you.
00:43:40And now you become property.
00:43:41Me and Misa was just friends.
00:43:46But he wanted to make sure that there was no calling and me being friends with that girl.
00:43:55Sean's jealousy, it got to the point where he would put his hands on her.
00:43:58Right outside of Uptown Records, they're fighting in the street and he's beating her into the car well.
00:44:06Sean's jealousy, it got to the car well.
00:44:08She's on the ground.
00:44:12And people are pulling him off of her and separating her.
00:44:15A year or two later, they're still together and Justin is born.
00:44:29When he invited me to be the godfather of his first son, I was able to push that in the back of my mind and say,
00:44:37that was a really bad moment, but he was weak and it was a bad moment.
00:44:45Does that make me part of a Sean Combs cult?
00:44:50Maybe so.
00:44:52I may have been the first disciple, believer, and then overall protector against all odds.
00:45:08Everybody say, up, up, down.
00:45:10Up, up, down.
00:45:12Yo, I want to personally invite one more brother on stage.
00:45:16Responsible for my brother.
00:45:17Joe to see.
00:45:18Mary J. Blige.
00:45:20Fuck daddy, come to the stage, baby.
00:45:21Fuck daddy, fuck daddy.
00:45:23Fuck, uh, uh, uh.
00:45:26At that point, Sean is on top of the world.
00:45:30And his trajectory was only up.
00:45:33I was just a wonder kid.
00:45:37It was just something that they never saw before.
00:45:41To be young and to be puff daddy, it's just, it's just like, I felt like my dream had came true.
00:45:50Everybody now is looking for this kid.
00:45:57Because they all have artists that they have to get to the top of the chart.
00:46:01What does that do to a person?
00:46:04Do you think I'm still going to be, like, yes ma'am, no ma'am, thank you very much?
00:46:10He became too big for Uptown Records.
00:46:13I'm going to be so drunk and high by Wednesday at 8 o'clock.
00:46:15I'm not really going to give a fuck.
00:46:16But I give a fuck.
00:46:18There started to be some dissension between Andre and Puff.
00:46:23Andre was the king of the Uptown castle of the empire he created.
00:46:30And the intern was taking his place.
00:46:33Andre was like a surrogate dad for Sean.
00:47:00Sean was really sick when Andre fired.
00:47:03I'm talking about sick.
00:47:06Couldn't believe it.
00:47:09And then Sean called me.
00:47:12And he said, yo, I'm about to do my thing, dog.
00:47:29Puff was like, yo, I'm looking for some hardcore artist.
00:47:34He's ain't tired of doing the Mary shit.
00:47:36Jonas, he said, he want to do some hard shit, some street shit.
00:47:39Straight out of county.
00:47:40Crazy motherfucker named Ice Cube.
00:47:42From the gang called niggas with attitude.
00:47:45So I guess I got the handle mine.
00:47:47The West Coast had the hits that we wanted.
00:47:50Sean signed Biggie in 1992.
00:48:01People didn't know.
00:48:02We had to produce Biggie's album for Uptown.
00:48:04He was an Uptown artist.
00:48:06So it's an attorney that's big, then.
00:48:08Yeah, yeah.
00:48:08B-I-G.
00:48:09Business instead of game, right?
00:48:11I'm telling my children.
00:48:13But when Andre fired Puff, they fired him with a caveat.
00:48:17I'm letting you go, but I'm going to let you take Biggie with you.
00:48:20Andre decided to sell us the Biggie album.
00:48:27But now, we had to find a way to pay for it.
00:48:30We were living on borrowed time.
00:48:35I went about setting up the meetings.
00:48:38Then we met with Epic, Sony, Columbia.
00:48:42Then we met with Clive Davis at Ariston.
00:48:45Everybody knows him on a first-name basis.
00:48:48Clive runs a $100 million record company called Ariston.
00:48:53He has discovered Whitney Houston, Carly Simon, Aretha Franklin,
00:48:59and a long list of other pop stars who thrive in the world, according to Clive.
00:49:06So we went to Clive, and we played a few tracks from Biggie's album.
00:49:11And I remember one of the first ones that we played was Gimme the Loop.
00:49:14Yes, love, love your fucking attitude, because the nigga play pussy, that's the nigga.
00:49:18And Clive's eyes went like this.
00:49:21I'm slamming niggas like Shaquille, shit is real.
00:49:24And I said, well, you got the goods.
00:49:26And I bought into his vision.
00:49:28Give me the loop, give me the loop.
00:49:31Give me the loop, give me the loop.
00:49:34Give me the loop, give me the loop.
00:49:36I named it a bad boy, because I wanted to go against the grain.
00:49:41I didn't want to just make records.
00:49:42I didn't want to just make money.
00:49:44I wanted to make history.
00:49:46I was at bad boy starting from the day that we put the LLC together, and Sean gave me 25% in stock.
00:50:03And his mother, Janice, had 75%.
00:50:08He did not put the company in his name to protect him from paying families at CCNY.
00:50:16And I saw from that moment on, Sean had shifted in his personality.
00:50:24I didn't see any more of the Mount St. Michael teen Sean.
00:50:30He had become more like the person I see today.
00:50:39We did a deal for approximately $10 million.
00:50:42$1.5 went as an advance into Sean's pocket.
00:50:49Another 1.5 is supposed to be our overhead.
00:50:53Sean said, that's yours.
00:50:55You can do whatever you want with it, but you better make sure my company's running.
00:50:58From day zero, I wrote everything down every day so I could keep track of everything I needed to do.
00:51:07I ran all the money, all the budgets for the company, as well as a lot for his personal life and all that came with it.
00:51:15I don't like the way you're treating me or me getting my second half.
00:51:19This shit is bullshit.
00:51:19Yo, yo, yo, yo, bust your ass and ask me.
00:51:23I think that he had this thing with strongmen, and he had a thing with wanting to be one, but not positioned to be one street-wise, but positioned to be one industry-wise.
00:51:36And they call that a paper gangster.
00:51:38Shit over.
00:51:38I'm not paying, nor am I involved in any of that shit.
00:51:42And so as he's paper gangstering, he's also trying to street gangster, too, at the same time.
00:51:50Savage!
00:51:51I'm a savage!
00:51:52He's not from the street.
00:51:54His mother did the very best to give him the best.
00:51:57What's next?
00:51:57Give me something else.
00:51:59What can't you do?
00:52:00I can do it.
00:52:01But now, he's been getting beefier and beefier with the power from the music.
00:52:06That's a good way to get your head filled up to think that you're just as gangster as they are now, without even having to pop your gun off yourself.
00:52:14Now, after all this time, me and Misa is still cool.
00:52:21We were just friends.
00:52:24But one time, she just happened to be in my driver's seat in my truck.
00:52:31And all of a sudden, I heard somebody go, and it's him.
00:52:34He's steaming.
00:52:38He swings on me.
00:52:40So I'm laughing, and I'm like, you swung on me?
00:52:45Hey, you're putting yourself in jeopardy knowing you can't work none of us.
00:52:49So now, I'm like, yo, let's go around the corner, because I'm respectful enough.
00:52:57So he actually gets in the car, and we drive around the corner.
00:53:01So I'm about to give him the business.
00:53:03Shit could have got really ugly.
00:53:06And he just said, yo, see now, I want you to hear something real quick.
00:53:09And that's when he played me the Biggie Smalls album.
00:53:12Yeah, this album is dedicated to all the teachers that told me I never amount to nothing.
00:53:17The Juicy single dropped somewhere in 94.
00:53:22It was all a dream.
00:53:23I used to read Word Up magazine.
00:53:25But Biggie's trajectory was not zero straight to the top.
00:53:30Biggie had a slow start, very nervous at first.
00:53:35At the time, that West Coast thing is happening.
00:53:39So we began to look at what they were doing, and Tupac was like a shining star.
00:53:44There's a song called I Get Around by Tupac.
00:53:47That song, if you're, like, in a science lab, and you're looking at something with a microscope,
00:53:57and you're trying to figure out what it is and what it's made of, that's what we did with that song, I Get Around.
00:54:03Sean was just mesmerized by that particular song, the structure of it, the video and the visuals.
00:54:10It showed the culture.
00:54:13It's like, let me dissect this.
00:54:14Let me understand it.
00:54:16Let me do it my way.
00:54:17And the next single was Big Papa, and that dropped, and it took us over the edge with Biggie.
00:54:25He was out of here from that moment on.
00:54:28We had Ready to Die before it came out.
00:54:39Bigg had sent Tupac a demo, and we played that tape to death, man.
00:54:43We played that tape till it was destroyed.
00:54:46And then Pac got the phone call that Bigg was having an album release party.
00:54:50He said to us, man, we all go into that.
00:54:54He was very excited for him.
00:54:55The notorious Bigg album release party.
00:54:58It was so bad.
00:54:59We hear everybody hear.
00:55:01I've never seen someone more excited for someone else's success as Pac was for Bigg's success.
00:55:09You ready, nigga?
00:55:10Yeah.
00:55:10You ready for that raw dog shit, nigga?
00:55:12I don't know what I'm gonna grab, man.
00:55:14Okay.
00:55:14All right.
00:55:15Let me see how I'm gonna hit you with.
00:55:17He thought Bigg was dope.
00:55:20He wasn't doper than him as far as he was concerned.
00:55:23Tupacalypse, don't sleep.
00:55:25I keep a motherfucking Glock in my car.
00:55:27But he was the next thing smoking.
00:55:30I'm a high guy.
00:55:31From Bed-Stuy, putting the swelling on your eye.
00:55:33Your nose even.
00:55:35When I choke you, you stop breathing.
00:55:36When police come, I'm leaving.
00:55:38Peace and love.
00:55:39Here we go.
00:55:43Pac would take Bigg with him on tours and let him open up for him.
00:55:47I'm a high guy.
00:55:48I'm a high guy.
00:55:48I'm a high guy.
00:55:49I'm a high guy.
00:55:50I'm a high guy.
00:55:51I'm a high guy.
00:55:53Pac was developing thug life, this ideology of taking back our communities.
00:56:00Bigg was with that.
00:56:01He felt it.
00:56:02He resonated with it.
00:56:03So they had a connection.
00:56:07Sean was insanely jealous of Bigggy and Pac's friendship.
00:56:13You know, when I was around Bigg, I felt like he really loved me.
00:56:19I felt like if I left the room, he wasn't going to say nothing bad or somebody said something
00:56:24bad about me, he would defend that.
00:56:27He was probably one of the only people I had really trusted, like, for a long time.
00:56:30There's a yearning for him to have that complete, total control.
00:56:41You're my artist.
00:56:42You're my best friend.
00:56:44You're writing this song for, like, 30 motherfucking days.
00:56:47I pay you.
00:56:48You work for me.
00:56:49I make hits with you.
00:56:53I needed money on my own, so I started playing.
00:56:57And who is this guy?
00:57:00Why do we need him in the picture?
00:57:03Guess who's going to win?
00:57:05Tupac was a very likable person.
00:57:08All the women loved him.
00:57:11Being a rapper, being a movie star.
00:57:14For Sean, being a marketer, you're a manipulator.
00:57:20Please welcome Tupac Shakur.
00:57:23And there's envy for people who have success, fame, with no manipulation.
00:57:32Puff is, to me, very threatened by Pop.
00:57:39When I reflect on how this all came into play, it's a trail.
00:57:44To the college.
00:57:49Innocent lives got taken.
00:57:53Then it became the ability to get away with anything.
00:57:58And then you circle in the fact that he has legit money.
00:58:03Then you have the antagonist, Tupac Shakur.
00:58:06All those agreements created the chain of events that started in New York and ended in Vegas.
00:58:23Do you know who was responsible for the killing of Tupac Shakur?
00:58:40No, I don't.
00:58:45I think that Sean now, in my mature mind, had a lot to do with the death of Tupac.
00:58:53And, of course, I have a lot to do with the death of the death of Tupac Shakur.
00:58:58I think that it was a good thing.
00:59:00I think that the end was terrible.
00:59:01Because I don't have to do with the death of Tupac Shakur.
00:59:03And it was just a little bit of a doublehead that never imagined that he had to do with the death of Tupac Shakur.
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